Again, we are talking economics here, not politics. So I consider any country where greed drives people. So the UK, France, Germany, etc...

None of those countries are like China, where you can own a mom and pop corner store, but if you make Best Buy, the government takes it away from you.

I am talking about a country where success is rewarded with money. All of Western Europe.

that just means they have elements of capitalism, it dosent mean they are soley capitalists, many of thoose nations will have socialistic policys as well, like state healthcare and educaiton.

oh but politics and economics are pretty much intertwined with each other, are they not?

China is a World Superpower, solely on the basis of of its population and cheap labor, IMO.  Remember that China is a fledgling nation, with maybe 50 years under its current regime (if that). They basically had to start over after WW2 as well, so I think comparing China to the US is sort of like comparing apples to oranges at this point.

For the sake of arguing with you, I would say that the food isn't really that much better. More processed? Yes. More plentiful? Yes, but in part to government subsidies (which of course is somewhat socialistic). Better work environments? C'mon man, that's HUGELY in part to the labor unions! 

The unions are what fought for 8 hour work days and 2 days off on the weekends! Same goes for stuff like Workman's comp and safer work environments. Back in the day, people were working in steel mills, 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. If you happened to get injured on the job, you got laid off, no benefits!

addendum: not that I am particularly a union guy, but I know a bunch of friends who work in the union and they've fought to get some benefits that shady contractors likely would have cheated out of them if they had the chance.

Unions can sometimes monopolize labor and also bring down industries (the automakers, anyone?), so they can be just as evil as the corporations sometimes!

the UK, France, and Germany are all pretty socialistic, IMO. They have way more taxes than the USA does, and they also have crazy things like Gun Control and Nationalised Health Care.

You should really read all of this thread, as it's already made clear, that calling the UK, France and Germany socialistic is simply an American thing based on a common misconception of the word socialism.

@mafoo I asked the same question on one of the first pages and you didn't answer on that. What to do you think about this dilemma?

Socialism never works, they all talk about bringing equality but they forget that such thing is impossible. Even most succesful Socialist goverments like Attle's Labour in the UK as always run out of money, and start taking money from everyone.

That simply isnt true.  You can definately count anything that has to do with space and satellites as out of the picture for the free market, the free market would never fund something that expensive with so much risk and uncertainity.  Other things like nuclear power and computers also comes to mind.

The restaurant never promoted a manager to a GM of the same restaurant. I assume even if you gave it to the right guy, the others would have some resentment. They were always transferred. Also, the chain was always opening up new locations (at the time I worked there, at a rate of one a week). The GM jobs for the new stored were filled for these with promotion as well.

I am sure some people got promoted unfairly, but if that happened, there was always a chance the restaurant would suffer. Most GM's were looking to be Regional Managers (even more money), so they had a stake in doing the right thing as well. In this system, if you work well, you will get a GM job someday.

It's not perfect, but nothing is, and I think this is far better then any real world scenario I can think of.